Clinton, Obama Take Aim at Republicans

By

Amy Chozick and

Christopher Cooper

Updated Feb. 1, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

LOS ANGELES -- Several weeks of political jabs largely took hiatus last night when Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama set aside differences and threw darts at the Republicans in their first one-on-one debate.

The 18th Democratic debate of the political season was primarily devoted to domestic issues, and moderators spent much of the time trying to tease out differences between Sen. Obama of Illinois...